Sentences with phrase «find measurable»

The authors found that nurses had increased knowledge of schizophrenia, and there was evidence of less restrictive ward procedures following the intervention, but they did not find a measurable effect on the levels of high EE with approximately one - third of staff still showing criticism postintervention on the FMSS.

Even if you work in an industry that primarily requires soft skills --- and not hard numbers — you can find measurable accomplishments to add.

They release modernized versions as the market shifts and as they find measurable improvement in performance.

HLDI couldn't find any measurable difference between the study and control groups, indicating that City Safety doesn't increase the likelihood of being struck in the rear.

After applying the standard antenna corrections (focus and active surface), we find no measurable degradation of the beam of the GBT at its highest operational frequencies.

«We were surprised to find no measurable benefit and actually a business loss,» says Ellen Silbergeld, professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins and one of the authors of the study.

Thus Von Verschuer, Mengele, and their colleagues were commissioned to find measurable ways of telling the races apart.

If the stars» positions actually deviated from Einstein's predictions but to a lesser degree, those earlier experiments would not have been able to find a measurable difference in the stars» positions.

«We added lower concentrations [of silver] to a more complex system, but rather than find no measurable effect, we found that the silver nanoparticles significantly altered the plant growth, microbial biomass and microbial activity.»

It's exceedingly difficult to find measurable differences in the tonal quality of the cherished old violins and more ordinary ones, let alone explain what causes them, comments Colin Gough, physicist and expert on musical acoustics at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Gough sees problems with the new study.

In late 2012 we released our original report on arsenic in rice, in which we found measurable levels in almost all of the 60 rice varieties and rice products we tested.

Hazardous materials crews also were called to the Kankakee Valley Park District facility, but found no measurable levels of chemicals there, according to the Fire Department.

They conducted a psilocybin study into depression which found some measurable improvement after just two doses of the substance.

A peer - reviewed study led by Duke University researchers found a measurable reduction in the suicide rate in Connecticut as a result of a law enacted in 1999 permitting police to seek protective orders and temporarily remove guns.

The researchers found measurable growth in phonological awareness and understanding the connections between speech and printed letters for the group using the Learn with Homer app, compared with the group using the art and activity app.

Several studies echo a high level of satisfaction among short course participants and found measurable impacts, but it is important for students to come in with realistic expectations and make an effort to further their learning after the program is done.

Although DNA can survive only up to 100,000 years and is rarely found in useful quantities in specimens even half that old, the team has found measurable amounts of osteocalcin in 120,000 - year - old bones.

While researchers found no measurable change in breastfed babies» iron stores when they received an increased amount of meat, the levels of hemoglobin (iron - containing cells) circulating in the bloodstream did increase.

Alternate daily fasting over 22 days found no measurable decrease in TEE.

Laboratory measurements found no measurable silver particles present and silver that was present is only one half of one percent of the labeled value.

And true enough, the researchers found a measurable decrease in their collective weight, blood pressure, body fat, waist - to - hip ratio, and body mass index (BMI).

One study wanted to see just how long the effect would last, and conducted tests for 48 hours after the conclusion of the exercise and found measurable effects existed up to 38 hours post-exercise.

He describes the results of a randomized experiment by researchers from the University of Arkansas that found measurable benefits for students who took a field trip to an art museum.

Pretesting students is the key to finding measurable gains in the classroom, whether it is in a public school setting or in an corporate employee training program.

As social media becomes more pervasive companies are struggling with finding measurable value as well as solid action steps on how to approach the topic.

A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or delaying sexual initiation among participating youth.

Johnston and Campbell's research on divorce families in high conflict for three years or more found a measurable degree of alignment between children and one parent in 35 percent to 40 percent of children from - 7 to 14 years of age (6).

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One such study published in the journal Neuroimage and highlighted on PsyBlog actually found that some forms of daydreaming cause measurable changes in the brain.

The interesting spot I find myself in often, as I imagine a lot of fellow digital marketers would, is that efforts online are intensely measurable.

A reviewer named Earl compared the accuracy of this scale to three balance beam scales at a local hospital and found that any difference between these scales and the Taylor device were not measurable.

Just a quick glimpse of a green landscape, the team found, had a measurable impact on productivity.

I struggled to find a system that would allow me to manage and focus my ideas and brainstorms to produce measurable results in all the areas of life that mattered to me most.

Religious leaders will need to promote the countercultural trend by celebrating the reasons to wait — rather than trying to find evidence for why it's wrong (because such tangible, measurable evidence may not exist).

Because last I checked there was still not a single shred of tangible, measurable, empirical evidence in support of any form of Theism, let alone something as backwards, corrupt, and atrocious, morally reprehensible (historically), and specific as Catholicism, which isn't even a very accurate form of Christianity when compared to the oldest Biblical scripts we've yet found.

The value of G can be found experimentally: If two spheres of known mass are separated by a known distance, there will be a measurable force between them.

The study, conducted by the University of British Columbia, found that while spirituality did increase childhood happiness, religiosity had no measurable...

He has the size, speed, measurable you are looking for, and his tape (while it is hard to find a ton of it) looks pretty impressive.

In 1994, he found that, among 30 cities that had built new stadiums between 1958 and 1987, there had been no measurable economic impact in 27 of them, and a negative economic impact in the other three.

Researchers have recently figured out that the stress hormone cortisol is found in measurable amounts as early as the seventeenth week of gestation.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

The district court held that the composition claims were inherently misleading because «they imply a compositional difference between those products that are produced with rb [ST] and those that are not,» in contravention of the FDA's finding that there is no measurable compositional difference between the two.

State economic development officials Monday approved spending an additional $ 25 million on business and tourism commercials despite an independent audit that found they produced no measurable benefits.

To paraphrase a spy, scientists often find education - focused conferences and meetings insipid, focused more on the manipulation of vague ideas and ill - defined symbols than on real and meaningful (and measurable) initiatives and outcomes — but these HHMI Professors presented a wide array of well - conceived and - executed (not to mention well - financed) projects that are likely to make a real difference in the education of tomorrow's scientists.

They found that after 180 days neither dose led to measurable changes in the soil's mix of DNA and molecules found in bacterial cell walls (which reveals the amount and types of bacteria present), its levels of nutrients or rate of CO2 formation — the latter of which reflects how well the bacteria are utilizing oxygen.

The researchers found that male rats have inherently higher levels of endocannabinoids in their brains than females, so trying to give the males a little boost did not cause any measurable changes.

Robert Foot at the University of Melbourne says that if the experiment goes ahead, it could not only find dark matter but also reveal properties not measurable in the northern hemisphere.

«As a field, we've often focused on understanding and changing individual psychological processes, but these findings show that changing individual psychology can trigger important second - order effects with measurable benefits for everyone in the environment.»

The researchers found that the anti-cancer drug romidepsin increased the virus production in HIV - infected cells between 2.1 and 3.9 times above normal and that the viral load in the blood increased to measurable levels in five out of six patients with HIV infection.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.